To celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, a well was sunk at the junction of the Stradbroke and Laxfield Roads.  For sixty years, until provision of a mains supply, the 'Jubilee Pump' together with the 'Low Pump' (which still exists) supplied the central area of the parish with its water requirements.  Subsequently, the 1953 Coronation Celebrations Committee chose the site to erect the village sign depicting a pilgrim and his pack mule. The sign reflects the parish's association with cult pilgrimages to Bury St Edmunds which commenced during the late Saxon period.

In 2002, to mark Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, a new sign was commissioned, as shown in the photograph, the old one having been given to the school.